Activities and Interests

In collaboration with Hazard Adams, Searle has edited Critical Theory since 1965 (1985) and Critical Theory since Plato 3rd edition (2005); and with Raimonda Modiano and Peter Shillingsburg, Voice, Text and Hypertext (2004). He was the founding director of the UW Humanities and Arts Computing Center (now DX-Arts); Former Director of the Walter Chapin Simpson Humanities Center; and Director of the College Studies Program. He is one of the founding members of the faculty of the Comparative History of Ideas Program, as well as the Program in Criticism and Theory, and the Textual Studies Program. He has also served as Graduate Program Coordinator in Comparative Literature for several terms, and is an original member and current chair of the UW Intellectual Property Management Advisory Committee.

In addition to these academic interests, he actively is involved in music (arranging, composing, and performance) and poetry.